Jeremiah Hoyet

Yesterday I took a weekday hiatus from blogging at my new tech blog, ThisIsTech. Although I had good reasons (doctors kept me all day for “education”), I just started the blog, so every time I take a day off I feel like I’m sabotaging myself from readers and missing out on some cool tech news.

Now yesterday looks like it was a bad day to take off. I got on my computer this morning and decided to check how traffic went yesterday without any new posts. Well, it seems that I got a fair bit of traffic yesterday, thanks to StumbleUpon. According to my referrals information page, I had over 600+ people referred to my blog by StumbleUpon.

Whoever was responsible, thanks!

What happened to the quality of Digg as a website? Recently I returned to my Digging activities, after having not been active for some time. Other than the “fresh start” feeling, I also get the vibe that I’m browsing MySpace every now and then. Why? Well, if you’re a MySpace user, you know that you get the “MSOD” (myspace screen of death) error messages every 2-3 link clicks (boy does MySpace tech support stay busy).

The past few days, I’ve been staring at more “Oops” and “Oh noes” pages on Digg than I have actual content. Every time I click a link I get an error message of some sort. What the hell? I just wanted to view page two of the upcoming articles, how was the page not found?

Aside from that, the speed of the site is still an issue, but that’s okay. The new submission process takes 5-10 minutes to actually work, so I often have time to run and get food or smoke a cigarette before I return to find my “Awww Crap, something broke” page.

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I’m now officially in love with my blog ThisIsTech’s host, MediaTemple.net. I have an account using their Grid-Service, which is reasonably priced at $20 a month, and comes with some great features.

Anywho, recently my blog was down for a period of around 12 hours due to some unseen problems with their scheduled maintenance on the servers contain my “grid. I didn’t mind so much, and after the problem had been fixed I was happy with their explanation of what went wrong and just glad nothing was lost when my blog came back online.

Skip ahead to today. I just got an email from Media Temple explaining in more detail what had gone wrong, what is still wrong, and what they plan to do about it. . . oh, and I got two months of hosting accredited to my account! NOW THAT IS CUSTOMER SERVICE!

In all, Media Temple has a reputation as a great, affordable host, and this has definitely been reflected in the past week with their great communication, and awesome customer support. I’m happy to call them my home, well for ThisIsTech at least.